The real and fake townspeople must track down the dragon and get rid of it before the Astraeus crew works out something is wrong, which would force the Consortium to terminate them to protect its secrets.
I was a big fan of last week's episode, but I knew coming out of it that the follow-up would need to answer some key questions to keep this arc chugging on. Chief of these was making sure Beverly Barlowe and the Consortium's plot actually made any sense, which would pretty much be a first for this show. The show presents some nice explanations for just why the time-jump was necessary — it's an easy way to fill in for inevitable inconsistencies in the characters' actions — and why the crew was kidnapped in the first place — to invent amazing new technology for the Consortium.
You can certainly quibble about some of the finer points of the plan, particularly whether these innovations will justify the sheer elaborateness of the virtual reality program, but it more than passes an initial inspection, so it's good enough for me. The episode also pulled off a neat trick in subtly expanding the ideas seen in last week's AI police state. While the previous week showed all the humans, real and fake alike, banding together to take down Andy and S. It's a neat progression as the show expands the dangers of malevolent computer to the crew's entire reality.
It makes for a nice sense of dread whenever the crew members start asking dangerous questions, particularly in the scenes between Grace and a suddenly intellectually incurious Henry. Of course, that all builds up to the episode's big final twist, in which Felicia Day's Holly realizes the strange things she is seeing are glitches in a computer simulation, and she happily shares her latest amazing breakthrough with Carter. Colin Ferguson does some nice acting in this scene, his stony expression suggesting a mix of murderous determination and computer-simulated anguish at what he has to do.
Telling Holly that he's so sorry she said all that, his touch renders her unconscious — all while Senator Wen fatally unplugs Holly from the computer program. Allison Blake Salli Richardson. But then, only four episodes into the season, the Sci Fi Channel gods saw fit to get rid of the middle guy in between the main character Sheriff Carter and Blake's flirtations.
Sheriff Carter awoke to find himself stuck in a time loop on Blake and Stark's wedding day. After Carter discovered the source of the problem and convinced Stark on his 5th or 6th rotation through the day that he wasn't crazy, Stark realized that if he didn't stop the time loop everyone would die.
Of course everything goes wrong at the very last minute and Stark has to sacrifice himself for the greater good. Because even though Carter volunteers to stop the crisis, he doesn't have the mental capacity to stand in a glass chamber and smirk which was really all Stark did to save Eureka. While I'm not entirely opposed to the death of Stark, it was the manner in which they went about axeing this character that rubbed me the wrong way. Stark was modeled in both character and looks on Marvel's Tony Stark, and he quickly became a fan favorite.
Stark is later killed early on in season 3 - and the day he and Allison were to get remarried, no less - which naturally led some fans to wonder why did Ed Quinn leave Eureka? Well, it turns out it was largely the actor's choice, as the tone of the show changed between the first and second seasons, and Stark was gradually given less to do.
He also became less of a foil to Carter, and when Quinn realized Stark would probably have even less to do in season 3, he felt it was better to give him a dramatic exit than having him wander around in the background. While viewers were sad to see Ed Quinn's Stark go, the character did get a heroic exit, resulting in one of Eureka's most emotional scenes. But Eureka is not over yet. There is a new holiday episode this December and 12 stellar episodes set to debut next year, marking its fifth season and six memorable years on Syfy.
We are very grateful to Bruce Miller and Jaime Paglia, their team of incredible writers, and an amazing cast and crew who have consistently delivered a series we continue to be very proud of. We thank the fans for their support of this show and know they will enjoy its final season in
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